US Patent Issued to ATOMERA on Sept. 16 for "Radio frequency (RF) semiconductor devices including a ground plane layer having a superlattice" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,912, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ATOMERA Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Radio frequency (RF) semiconductor devices including a ground plane layer having a superlattice" was invented by Hideki Takeuchi (San Jose, Calif.) and Robert J. Mears (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio frequency (RF) semiconductor device may include a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate, and an RF ground plane layer on the semiconductor-on-insulator substrate including a conductive superlattice. The conductive superlattice may include stacked groups of layers, with each group of layers comprising stacked doped base semiconductor monol...